diff --git a/train.py b/train.py
index cd24c8d2c8d5..9f67e93534d5 100644
--- a/train.py
+++ b/train.py
@@ -569,6 +569,8 @@ def main(opt, callbacks=Callbacks()):
             hyp = yaml.safe_load(f)  # load hyps dict
             if 'anchors' not in hyp:  # anchors commented in hyp.yaml
                 hyp['anchors'] = 3
+        if opt.noautoanchor:
+            del hyp['anchors'], meta['anchors']
         opt.noval, opt.nosave, save_dir = True, True, Path(opt.save_dir)  # only val/save final epoch
         # ei = [isinstance(x, (int, float)) for x in hyp.values()]  # evolvable indices
         evolve_yaml, evolve_csv = save_dir / 'hyp_evolve.yaml', save_dir / 'evolve.csv'